"Pro Lombardy Independence Pro Lombardy Independence (""Pro Lombardia Indipendenza"") is an independentist party active in Lombardy, Italy. The party, which was launched in 2011, is led by Giovanni Roversi and has a municipal councillor in Roncadelle, province of Brescia, Alessandro Ceresoli, reelected in May 2015. The first objective of the party is the independence of the present-day Lombardy region, but it hopes for a unification of the 'Historical Lombardy', which in its eyes includes Emilia (part of the Emilia-Romagna region), the provinces of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and the commune of Tortona (all three part of the Piedmont Region), and the"
"2017 Lombard autonomy referendum The Lombard autonomy referendum of 2017 took place on 22 October in Lombardy, Italy. The poll was not binding, but it might have consequences in terms of negotiations between the Italian government and Lombardy as the regional government will ask for more devolved powers since the ""yes"" won. Neighbouring Veneto also held a similar referendum on 22 October. Both President of Lombardy Roberto Maroni and President of Veneto Luca Zaia are members of Lega Nord (LN) and more specifically of Lega Lombarda and Liga Veneta, respectively. The LN is a strong proponent of federal reform, but"
"language should not be confused with that of the Lombards – Lombardic language – a Germanic language extinct since the Middle Ages. Lombardy has always been an important centre for silk and textile production, notably the cities of Pavia, Vigevano and Cremona, but Milan is the region's most important centre for clothing and high fashion. In 2009, Milan was regarded as the world fashion capital, even surpassing New York, Paris and London. Most of the major Italian fashion brands, such as Valentino, Versace, Prada, Armani and Dolce & Gabbana (to name a few), are currently headquartered in the city. Lombardy"
"Economy of Milan The City of Milan is the capital of the Lombardy Region in Northern Italy. Milan and Lombardy have a 2017 GDP of €400 billion ($493 billion) and €650 billion ($801 billion) respectively. On these accounts, the City of Milan is richer than the U.S. state of Massachusetts and Milan's Lombardy region is slightly wealthier than the world's 19th biggest economy, Switzerland. It was Europe's most expensive city in 2015 and 2016. Milan is the world's 11th most expensive city for expatriate employees and its influence in fashion, commerce, business, banking, design, trade and industry makes it an"
"under negotiation with Rome for the devolution of certain competencies. The region of Lombardy is divided in 11 administrative provinces, 1 metropolitan city and 1,530 communes. Beside being an economic and industrial powerhouse, Lombardy has a rich and diverse cultural heritage. The many examples range from prehistory to the present day, through the Roman period and the Renaissance and can be found both in museums and churches that enrich cities and towns around the region. Major tourist destinations in the region include (in order of arrivals ) the historic, cultural and artistic cities of Milan (4,527,889 arrivals), Bergamo (242,942), Brescia"
"Lombardy is a member of the Four Motors of Europe, an Intereuropean economical organization which includes Baden-Wurtenberg in Germany, Catalonia in Spain, and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in France. The region can broadly be divided into three areas as regards the productive activity. Milan, where the services sector makes up for 65.3% of the employment; a group of provinces, Varese, Como, Lecco, Monza and Brianza, Bergamo and Brescia, highly industrialised, although in the two latter ones, in the plains, there is also a rich agricultural sector. Finally, in the provinces of Sondrio, Pavia, Cremona, Mantova and Lodi, there is a consistent agricultural activity,"
"any official status either in Lombardy or anywhere else: the only official language in Lombardy is Italian. Eastern Lombard is a Romance language and belongs to the Gallo-Italic branch. Its position on the language family put in evidence that it is genetically closer to Occitan, Catalan, French, etc. than to Italian. Its substratum is Celtic. Eastern Lombard is primarily spoken in Eastern Lombardy (Northern Italy), in the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, in the Northern region of the province of Mantua and in the area around Crema. The varieties spoken in these regions are generally mutually intelligible for speakers of"
"of Italy after Rome, Lombardy is by far the most populated region of Italy, with more than ten million inhabitants, almost one sixth of the national total. The seat of the regional government is Palazzo Lombardia that, standing at , is the fifth-tallest building in Milan. According to the last governmental dispositions concerning administrative reorganisation, the urban area of Milan is one of the 15 Metropolitan municipalities (""città metropolitane""), new administrative bodies fully operative since 1 January 2015. The new Metro municipalities, giving large urban areas the administrative powers of a province, are conceived for improving the performance of local"
"about 10 million people live in Lombardy (16.2% of the national population; 2% of the European Union population), making it the second most densely populated region in Italy after Campania. The population is highly concentrated in the Milan metropolitan area (2,000 inh./km) and the Alpine foothills that compose the southern section of the provinces of Varese, Como, Lecco, Monza and Brianza and Bergamo, (1,200 inh./km). A lower average population density (250 inh./km) is found in the Po valley and the lower Brescia valleys; much lower densities (less than 60 inh./km) characterise the northern mountain areas and the southern Oltrepò Pavese"
"north, produce fruit and wine. Cattle (with the highest density in Italy), pigs and sheep are raised. The unemployment rate stood at 6.4% in 2017. Regional unemployment was one of the lowest in Italy. Politics in Lombardy is framed within a system of representative democracy, where the President of the Region (') is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is vested in the Regional Government ('). Legislative power is vested in the Regional Council (""""). Historically, the moderate Christian Democrats maintained a large majority of the popular support and the control of the most"
"Lombard nationalism Lombard nationalism is a nationalist, but primarily regionalist, movement active primarily in Lombardy, Italy. It seeks more autonomy or even independence from Italy for Lombardy and, possibly, all the lands that are linguistically or historically Lombard. During the 1990s it was strictly connected with Padanian nationalism. Today the main Lombard nationalist parties are the Lombard League and Pro Lombardy Independence. Like in the rest of Europe, during the Romantic Era there was an awaken of the national sentiment in Lombardy. The napoleonic creation of the Cispadane Republic, which was later replaced by the Cisalpine one, opened the doors"
"of these jobs be in the environmental sector, such as those employment areas being linked to renewable energy, energy efficiency, development of green infrastructure, as well as waste reduction. Economy of Milan The City of Milan is the capital of the Lombardy Region in Northern Italy. Milan and Lombardy have a 2017 GDP of €400 billion ($493 billion) and €650 billion ($801 billion) respectively. On these accounts, the City of Milan is richer than the U.S. state of Massachusetts and Milan's Lombardy region is slightly wealthier than the world's 19th biggest economy, Switzerland. It was Europe's most expensive city in"
"to invade in 1859, and a battle occurred in Varese. Umberto Bossi was born in 1941 near Varese, who believed that the region of Lombardy should have a degree of independence; in 1986, he founded the Lombard League which became a component of the Lega Nord (North League). The province of Varese is one of twelve provinces in the region of Lombardy in the north of Italy. It is the most northwesterly province in the region and its northern border forms the international boundary with Switzerland. The Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Piedmont region lies to the northwest and the"
"Palazzo Lombardia Palazzo Lombardia (""Lombardy Building"") is a complex of buildings in Milan, Italy, including a 39-storey, tall skyscraper. <br>It is the main seat of the government of Lombardy, located in the Centro Direzionale di Milano (""Directional Centre of Milan"") district, north-west of the city centre. It was first inaugurated on 22 January 2010, and officially completed on 21 March 2010. After its completion, the Regione Lombardia skyscraper was briefly the tallest skyscraper both in Milan and in Italy, being taller than both the Telecom Italia Tower in Naples and the Pirelli Tower in Milan. It lost its supremacy to"
"Raffaele Lombardo Raffaele Lombardo ; (born on 29 October 1950 in Catania) is a convicted criminal, formerly an Italian politician who was President of Sicily and former Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for the Autonomies and has sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In 2005 he split off from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) to form the autonomist Sicilian-based Movement for Autonomy, after he had accused the UDC leadership of being too centralist. On 2008 he was elected as President of Sicily, obtaining over 65%"
"!align=""left"" valign=""top""|Lombard Alpine League !align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|5,621,749 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|48 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|= !align=""left"" valign=""top""|N° !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Constituency !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Elected !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Party !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Votes % !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Others 1992 Italian Senate election in Lombardy Lombardy elected its eleventh delegation to the Italian Senate on April 5, 1992. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1992 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race. The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level."
"Mantua Mantua ( ; Lombard and ) is a city and ""comune"" in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua became Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, Mantua was the European Capital of Gastronomy, included in the Eastern Lombardy District (together with the cities of Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona). In 2007, Mantua's ""centro storico"" (old town) and Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family has made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy"
"since 1995, under three Presidents, Roberto Formigoni (CDU/FI/PdL), Roberto Maroni (LL–LN) and Attilio Fontana (LL–LN). On 22 October 2017 an autonomy referendum took place in Lombardy: 38.3% of Lombards participated and 95.3% voted ""yes"". The Regional Council of Lombardy is composed of 80 members. 64 councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 16 councillors (elected in a general ticket) come from a ""regional list"", including the President-elect. One seat is reserved for the candidate who comes second. If a coalition wins more than 50% of"
"1855, the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia had a population of 5,024,117 people, consisting of the following ethnic groups: 4,625,746 Italians; 351,805 Friulians; 12,084 Germans (Cimbrians in Venetia); 26,676 Slovenians and 7,806 Jews. For the first time since 1428 Lombardy reappeared as en entiety, and the first time in history that term ""Lombardy"" was officially used to call specifically this entiety. Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (, ; ), commonly called the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, was a constituent land (crown land) of the Austrian Empire. It was created in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna in recognition of the"
"Lodi, Lombardy Lodi (; Lodigiano: ) is a city and ""comune"" in Lombardy, northern Italy, on primarily on the western bank of the River Adda. It is the capital of the province of Lodi. Lodi was a Celtic village; in Roman times it was called, in Latin, Laus Pompeia (probably in honour of the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo) and was known also because its position allowed many Gauls of ""Gallia Cisalpina"" to obtain Roman citizenship. It was in an important position where a vital Roman road crossed the River Adda. Lodi became the see of a diocese in the 3rd"
"Kingdom of the Lombards The Kingdom of the Lombards () also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of (all) Italy (), was an early medieval state established by the Lombards, a Germanic people, on the Italian Peninsula in the latter part of the 6th century. The king was traditionally elected by the highest-ranking aristocrats, the dukes, as several attempts to establish a hereditary dynasty failed. The kingdom was subdivided into a varying number of duchies, ruled by semi-autonomous dukes, which were in turn subdivided into gastaldates at the municipal level. The capital of the kingdom and the center"
"well as Jews, Sikh and Muslims. , the gross domestic product (GDP) of Lombardy, equal to over €350 billion, accounts for about 20% of the total GDP of Italy. When this measure is considered by inhabitant, it results in a value of €33,066 per inhabitant, which is more than 25% higher than the national average of €25,729. Lombardy's development has been marked by the growth of the services sector since the 1980s, and in particular by the growth of innovative activities in the sector of services to enterprises and in credit and financial services. At the same time, the strong"
"valign=""top""|Lombard Autonomy League !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Communist Refoundation Party !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Italy of Values !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|5,709,297 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|47 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|47 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|= !align=""left"" valign=""top""|N° !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Constituency !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Winner !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Alliance !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Party !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Votes % !align=""center"" valign=""top""|Losers 2001 Italian Senate election in Lombardy Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on May 13, 2001. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2001 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single"
"Bergamo Bergamo (; ; from the proto-Germanic elements *""berg +*heim"", the ""mountain home"") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Garda and Maggiore. The Bergamo Alps (""Alpi Orobie"") begin immediately north of the city. With a population of around 120,000, Bergamo is the fourth-largest city in Lombardy. Bergamo is the seat of the Province of Bergamo. The metropolitan area of Bergamo extends beyond the administrative city limits, spanning over a densely urbanized area with slightly less"
"of Bolivians reside in the town of Bergamo. Province of Bergamo The Province of Bergamo (; ) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. It has a population of 1,112,187 (2017), an area of , and contains 243 ""comuni"". Its capital is the city of Bergamo. The Province of Bergamo borders the province of Sondrio to the north, the province of Brescia to the east, the province of Cremona to the south and the Metropolitan City of Milan and the provinces of Monza and Brianza and Lecco to the west. The northern part spans the Orobian Alps with"
"Carlo Lombardi (Unionist soldier) Carlo Lombardi (28 February 1834 in Brescia – 16 January 1865 in Fort Fisher, North Carolina) was an Italian patriot and soldier whose military career as an officer spanned from the Risorgimento - the Italian Unification Wars - to the American Civil War. Born to Giuseppe and Elisabetta Torelli, he took part to Italian patriotic movements from a very young age. At the time, the northernmost part of the Italian Peninsula (except the Sardinian-Piedmontese Kingdom) was included in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. ""De facto"" this was a client state of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which sought to"
"(229,710), Como (215,320), Varese (107,442), Mantua (88,902), Monza (75,839) and the lakes of Garda (429,376), Como (322,585), Iseo (123,337) and Maggiore (71,055). There are nine UNESCO World Heritage sites wholly or partially located in Lombardy. Some of these comprise several individual objects in different locations. One of the entries has been listed as natural heritage, the others are cultural heritage sites. At Monte San Giorgio, on the border with Swiss canton Ticino just south of Lake Lugano, a wide range of marine Triassic fossils have been found. During that period, some 240 million years ago, the area was a shallow"
"Romanesque. Lombards The Lombards () or Longobards (; ; ) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774. The Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ""Historia Langobardorum"" that the Lombards descended from a small tribe called the ""Winnili"", who dwelt in southern Scandinavia (""Scadanan"") before migrating to seek new lands. In the 1st century AD, they formed part of the Suebi, in northwestern Germany. By the end of the 5th century, they had moved into the area roughly coinciding with modern Austria and Slovakia north of the Danube river, where they"
"and Tryavna in Bulgaria). Bellagio, Lombardy Bellagio (; ) is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy. It is located on Lake Como, also known by its Latin-derived name ""Lario"", whose arms form an inverted Y. The triangular land mass at the base of the inverted Y is the Larian Triangle: at its northern point sits Bellagio, looking across to the northern arm of the lake and, behind it, the Alps. It has always been famous for its location. Bellagio is situated upon the cape of the land mass that divides Lake Como"
"Lombards The Lombards () or Longobards (; ; ) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774. The Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ""Historia Langobardorum"" that the Lombards descended from a small tribe called the ""Winnili"", who dwelt in southern Scandinavia (""Scadanan"") before migrating to seek new lands. In the 1st century AD, they formed part of the Suebi, in northwestern Germany. By the end of the 5th century, they had moved into the area roughly coinciding with modern Austria and Slovakia north of the Danube river, where they subdued"
"to Dmitry Peskov. The regional council of Italy's northern region Lombardy has adopted a non-binding resolution on recognizing Crimea as part of Russia. The document also calls on the central government to work out a plan to lift the sanctions from Moscow, local news agency Il Giorno reports. Sanctions were imposed to prevent Russian and Crimean officials and politicians travelling to Canada, the United States, and the European Union. They were the most wide-ranging used on Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Japan announced milder sanctions than the US and EU. These include suspension of talks relating to"
"Western Lombard dialect Western Lombard is one of the main varieties of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy. It is widespread in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona (except Crema and its neighbours), Lodi and Pavia, and the Piedmont provinces of Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, the eastern part of the Province of Alessandria (Tortona), a small part of Vercelli (Valsesia), and Switzerland (the Canton of Ticino and part of the Canton of Graubünden). After the name of the region involved, land of the former Duchy of Milan, this language is often referred"
"an utterly novel decision, took the title ""King of the Lombards"". Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people. Charlemagne took part of the Lombard territory to create the Papal States. The Lombardy region in Italy, which includes the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, Milan, and the old capital Pavia, is a reminder of the presence of the Lombards. Though the kingdom centred on Pavia in the north fell to Charlemagne, the Lombard-controlled territory to the south of the Papal States was never subjugated by Charlemagne or his"